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by nickjj 110 days ago
> Sure a lot of niceties are missing but compared to the experience most people have with their $500 laptops, this is going to be night and day.

In September I picked up a laptop for $575.

Its specs are 15.6" 1080p IPS display, AMD Ryzen 7 6800H (8 cores, 16 threads) CPU, 32 GB of DDR5 memory, Radeon 680M iGPU that can allocate 8 GB of GPU memory, 1 TB SSD with a backlight keyboard. Weighs about 3.5 pounds and has (5) USB ports plus HDMI port. It comes with a 2 year warranty as well.

Running Arch Linux on it with niri and it's really nice for what it is.

There are decent laptops out there at affordable prices.
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moondance 110 days ago
What’s it made of? How’s the touchpad feel?
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nickjj 109 days ago
It's metal "A-shell", I got mine in black. It also comes in blue or rose gold.

I'm not a huge touchpad fan, but it's very usable. It doesn't misclick.

When picking it, you can choose up to 64 GB of RAM and a 2 TB SSD. It was $50 more for 2 TB instead of 1 TB.

The only problem is it seems to be out of stock. It's a Nimo N155. Amazon resellers are also marking it up like crazy compared to its official listed price.

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sipjca 110 days ago
You literally just compared a laptop running arch to a mac. You’re not the target audience lmao
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nickjj 109 days ago
The laptop ships with Windows 11 but its parts are compatible with Linux too.

That is an important note though, the price includes a valid Windows 11 license.

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sipjca 109 days ago
That wasn’t the point. You’re a person who runs arch, that means most likely your requirements for a computer are VERY different than the target for this Mac. There’s always some other computer you can buy, but most people will just buy the Mac
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nickjj 109 days ago
> You’re a person who runs arch, that means most likely your requirements for a computer are VERY different than the target for this Mac

I do software development, video + image editing, writing and gaming. My requirements are it runs well, I can depend on it and I don't mind if it has a fan.

I only replied because the OP's comment made it seem like it's difficult to find a good laptop in the $600 range. If macOS is optional you can get quite decent specs.

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_zoltan_ 109 days ago
arch :D I loled. the people who run macs don't want Linux.
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